Publishing Modernist Fiction and Poetry / / Lise Jaillant.
Highlights the transformative impact that book publishers had on the modernist movementPublishing houses are nearly invisible in modernist studies. Looking beyond little magazines and other periodicals, this collection highlights the importance of book publishers in the diffusion of modernism. It al...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 18 B/W illustrations |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I Pioneers -- Chapter 1 Modernism, Reform and the Traditional Business of Books: The B. W. Huebsch Imprint -- Chapter 2 Young Americans: Transatlantic Connections in the Early Years at Knopf -- Chapter 3 ‘Glad to be in the Fold’: Boni & Liveright’s Multifold Marketing of Modernism -- Chapter 4 The Hogarth Press -- Chapter 5 Bringing the Modern to Market: The Case of Faber & Faber -- Part II Fine Books -- Chapter 6 Shakespeare and Company: Publisher -- Chapter 7 Publishing the Avant-Garde: Nancy Cunard’s Hours Press -- Chapter 8 ‘Flowers for the Living’: Crosby Gaige and Modernist Limited Editions -- Part III Publishing Modernism after the Second World War -- Chapter 9 New Directions Books -- Chapter 10 Grove Press and Samuel Beckett: A Necessary Alliance -- Chapter 11 Calder and Boyars -- Chapter 12 Cape Goliard -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | Highlights the transformative impact that book publishers had on the modernist movementPublishing houses are nearly invisible in modernist studies. Looking beyond little magazines and other periodicals, this collection highlights the importance of book publishers in the diffusion of modernism. It also participates in the transnational turn in modernist studies, demonstrating that book publishers created new markets for modernist texts in the United States, Europe and the rest of the world.Key Features:The first volume on Anglo-American book publishers that sold difficult modernist texts to a wide range of readers around the worldSheds new light on the relationship between publishers and major modernist writersIncludes essays of broad significance written in an accessible proseDraws on extensive work in neglected archives |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781474440820 9783110780420 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781474440820 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Lise Jaillant. |